Sándor Ferenczi, the great psychoanalyst, started developing some very unusual ideas in the early 1930s—that analysts, for example, should lie down on the analytic couch beside their patients. These ideas, albeit a little heretical, were at first seen as expressions of his remarkable originality of mind, but as they grew wilder it became evident that Ferenczi had an organic psychosis, which turned out to be associated with pernicious anemia.
